Next morning the villagers held a mass burial ceremony for the deceased..
Peoples gathered around the graveyard of the village and with sad faces they
buried the 25 dead bodies in the graveyard...
I and my team also joined the ceremony and paid our respect to the dead and their family's.
The whole process took us about 3 hours to complete but no one complaint and did it with proper rituals..
Then., after the ceremony was over the villagers divided themselves in to two groups.., first group for restoration of the village while the second prepared for traveling to the near by villages to buy food supply for the villagers..
Everything was happening in a organized way...
My team didn't disturb them or tried to help them in any ways and kept their distance as they prepared for our own travel...
Even though it was the assassins fault that harmed the village and killed the people's..
The villagers knew that the reason they became the collateral damage was because of my presence..., In some scene I was also responsible for the destruction and the deads..
For this reason they had their guards against me and the knights...,to them we were just like a time bomb that could burst any second...
If possible they wanted to kick us out of the village but they remained quite because of my strength and the money I gave them as compensations...
But still it doesn't mean that they were okey with our stay....
So to ease their mind it was better for my team to depart from the village as soon as possible...
At noon time we said our goodbyes to the villagers and left Kark Village to continue our journey to Cornard duchy..
But before we could travel far from the village...my caravan was stopped by a little friend...
" Kid why are you stopping us???...do you want more honey candy ??.." I asked while looking at the young Bahal standing infront of my carriage..
Bahal's face turn red hearing my word but he still maintained his serious face and bowed towards my carriage...
" I know I am just a normal kid young master and can't represent my whole village...but I would like to thank you for saving our lives..., Because of you young master..,my..m..y fa..th.er is aliv.e to.day..,b..because of y.ou youn..g m..master m..my w...hole village..is alive...y..yo.ung master...t..thank ..you..for saving...my ..f..father. t..ha.nk you for saving e..every one...tha..nk you s.o. much..." He poured his heart towards the person who saved his family...
I was surprised...
I don't know what say...,
I wouldn't say that I was not sad receiving cold shoulder by the villagers...,for the wrong doing that I didn't committed but I kept it all inside my heart and never showed it to anyone else...
It was the safety mechanism that I developed in my precious life...,
In my past life I was a poor orphan who had to come terms with various situation in life as I grew up..., I always told myself that it was all predetermined and it was not in my destiny to have...,it was a depressing concept to have and was close to self luthing but I kept on using this ideology in my past life as I lacked various things in life and if I somehow grew hope for better things then I was sure that I will ruin the small happiness I had at that time...
Sigh...
And looks like I brought my same old ideology in this life too...
I have to stop blaming myself and embrace things that I deserve....
Thanks to this kid I learned a very important lesson today...
" Don't worry kid..., I am not a person who care about gratitude and stuff...so don't worry....,I am not offended by them...." I said while I waved my hand from the carriage window...and threw a pouch full of honey candy towards Bahal...
He catched the pouch in reflex and looked inside...
His messy face turned red as he clutch the pouch with his small hands and move out of my carriages way...
The caravan once again started moving and went along the road towards it's new destination...
Young Bahal waved from behind but no one waved back..., Bahal turned around and moved along its own path towards village....
" One day young master I will find you once again and at that time I will not look at you from behind but will move along side you... I vow young master I will serve under you when we meet again " He said while clutching the candy pouch...
A new not was tied with Oliver when the young Bahal completed his vows....
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